Hush Up, Now, Little Lady… or Else

From flame-thrower pastors to online trolls (sometimes the same guy is both!)

Sarah Stankorb
4 min readNov 3, 2023
Troll cosplay, screenshots of Doug Wilson in his fire-centric November videos.

It’s November. For my writer friends, that makes it NaNoWriMo, and some of you may be spitting out pages of a new novel. For Americans, we’re headed toward Thanksgiving, a time for family that can be joyous or as complicated as the holiday’s origin. But for Doug Wilson, intentionally controversial pastor based in Moscow, Idaho, it means video trailers of himself setting fire to things, followed by a month of putting others on blast. For all the damage caused by his ministry and teachings, Wilson is a master content creator. The whole month of vicious wordplay on his blog is a tool for advertising his books (published by his own press). He’s happy to give them away, they’re so good! At the end of a month of gnarly posts, he packages the whole thing into an anthology. Click. Hate the libs. Read more vitriol. Repeat. Buy the anthology!

Douglas Wilson, on a flaming couch, for his 2018 No Quarter November trailer. SOURCE: YouTube

Douglas Wilson, on a flaming couch, for his 2018 No Quarter November trailer. SOURCE: YouTube

Sadly, at this point there’s little new about a shock jock pastor, ready to spew incendiary comments for attention…

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Sarah Stankorb
Sarah Stankorb

Written by Sarah Stankorb

Sarah Stankorb, author of Disobedient Women, has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, and many others. @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com

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